Preface
The Solaris 8 Admin Pack Release Notes contain details of installation and runtime problems, and other information that was not available until immediately before the release of the SolarisTM 8 Admin Pack software.
Who Should Use This Book
These release notes are for anyone who is installing or administering Solaris 8 Admin Pack products.
How This Book is Organized
These release notes contain the following chapters:
Chapter 2, Late-Breaking Installation and Runtime Bugs describes late-breaking issues related to the installation of the Solaris 8 Admin Pack software or that may arise while you are using Solaris 8 Admin Pack software.
Chapter 3, End-of-Support Statements provides end-of-support statements for products that may not be included in future releases of the Solaris 8 Admin Pack.
Chapter 4, Late-Breaking Documentation Issues lists known errors in Solaris 8 Admin Pack documentation.
Component Release Notes
The Solaris 8 Admin Pack product CD contains the release notes of component products for which release notes are available. The following table shows the location of all component release notes provided on the Admin Pack product CD.
Table P-1 Locations of Component Release Notes
Related Books
For full details on Solaris 8 Admin Pack products, see the Solaris 8 Admin Pack Installation Guide.
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What Typographic Conventions Mean
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P-2 Typographic Conventions|
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
|---|---|---|
|
AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
|
AaBbCc123 | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output | machine_name% su Password: |
|
AaBbCc123 | Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
To delete a file, type rm filename. |
|
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized. |
Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P-3 Shell Prompts|
Shell |
Prompt |
|---|---|
| C shell prompt | machine_name% |
| C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |
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